The stuff we’re eager to get our grubby little hands on at this year’s CES.

There’s never a shortage of impressive new technology at the annual International CES conference, and it doesn’t look like 2013 is going to be any exception. Here’s our look at just a few of the gizmos, gadgets and other gear that we’re looking out for at this year’s show.

The “Internet of Things” is an absurdly overused term, but here, it’s appropriate – Lowe’s will be showing off the Iris smart home platform, which lets you control a lot of your home’s functions directly from a smartphone or tablet. Unlock the door and let the pizza guy in without leaving your couch! (And subsequently gain weight since you haven’t had to move in days!)

Thought the Roomba was cool? Check out Winbot, a robot that can attach to glass windows and clean them automatically. Now we just need a robot to dust, and maybe another one to say “it’s a pigsty in here!” if we don’t use the other robots often enough.

U.K.-based Cambridge Consultants will show off a bicycle that will let you shift gears using a smartphone or tablet app. That’s neat, we suppose, but the real promise is in integrating things like heart rate and map data into a unified framework, according to the inventors.

Sticks-in-the-mud like me have been bemoaning – or at least gently mocking – the upward trend in smartphone sizes for a while now, but it’s getting increasingly comical of late. The 6.1-inch Huawei Ascend Mate was teased by executive Richard Yu in December, and will apparently be released at CES.

While it’s not as big as the Huawei Ascend Mate (but what is?), fellow Chinese hardware maker ZTE is getting in on the 5-inch, 1080p bandwagon with the ceramic-built Grand S, also set for release at the big show. My Google Translate of a social media post from the company about the phone seems to say they’re calling it a “God Machine,” so at least they’re not over-promoting it.

Not a mechanized dinosaur, as the name might suggest – REX is the brainchild of vision interface company Tobii, which says it will showcase an eye-tracking system for controlling your PC at this year’s CES. An initial production run of 5,000 units will go on sale in the fall, with general availability scheduled for 2014 or 2015.

Nvidia is widely expected to show off the next generation of its Tegra series of mobile systems-on-a-chip at the show. According to what’s purportedly a leaked development slide posted last month to Chinese forum Chiphell, the Tegra 4 could boast 1440p hardware video output, 72 processing cores, and a host of other impressive features.

Company CEO Yu Chengdong says Huawei is also planning to release a budget Windows Phone 8 handset at the show, dubbed the Ascend W1. Not as sexy as the enormous Ascend Mate, for sure, but another entry in a slowly growing Windows Phone 8 field.

The car company and the electronics manufacturer will show off a cloud-based system meant to allow access to navigation, entertainment and other info to drivers and passengers at this year’s CES. We can only hope it doesn’t actually let motorists watch movies themselves, since we’re sure someone would be dumb enough to try it.

This handy “two-fer” device sports both an e-ink reader and a traditional display, giving it a bit more flexibility than the average slab of hardware and allowing users to accomplish some tasks without using up battery power via the main screen.

Is your 2012-era Samsung Smart TV starting to show its age? Probably not, in all likelihood. Still, if you want it to perform even better, the company’s going to roll out a new evolution pack at CES, which attaches to your Smart TV and provides it with additional capabilities and performance.

Velocity Micro is mostly known as a builder of meaty gaming rigs for the (we’re told) dwindling PC enthusiast market. Maybe it’s a sign of the times, then, that the company is going to show off two new Android tablets at CES.

Westinghouse will show off a frankly absurd 110-inch TV boasting 3840x2160 resolution (four the pixels of 1080p, or “4X”) at this year’s show. We honestly can’t really get our heads around how big this is, but we’ll be sure to have a look and let you know.

While this specialist keyboard for the high-spending gamer undoubtedly looks like business, we can’t help but question why it doesn’t have mechanical key switches. But since it won a “best of show” award in the gaming hardware category, it seems like it’s our journalistic obligation to give it a whirl.